May 4, 2008
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A Cal Arts student, drawn to the Viewmaster portion of the “Believer” event on Saturday night, part of the PEN World Voices Festival, set up his thousands of dollars of
May 4, 2008
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The disembodied voice of Hungarian singer Bea Palya filled the darkness at the venerable night club Webster Hall as she emerged from the back alongside the audience, singing raw, no
May 2, 2008
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Jane Austen wrote about private lives, nary a hint of the Napoleonic Wars. Not an option for writers today; the public world intrudes, Salman Rushdie reminded us in his welcome
April 24, 2008
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Public radio station WNYC in New York and PRI (Public Radio International) are launching The Takeaway, a new morning news program hosted live by NPR and NBC Dateline journalist John
March 12, 2008
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Hari Kunzru’s “My Revolutions” is the book I’m telling people to grab. Kunzru is burning up in this novel. He spins a superb tale and his narrator’s plummet down the
March 11, 2008
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Emilie Buchwald “discovery” Ken Kalfus was on hand last Thursday night to present the founder of Milkweed Editions with the National Book Critics Circle Sandrof award, named after a founding
March 11, 2008
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Recently departed NBCC president and NBCC member John Freeman introduces a reading in the ongoing informal Critical Mass series tonight in New York City: Susan Choi, author of A Person
March 10, 2008
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NBCC board member and former Balakian award winner Maureen N. McLane announced the winner of the 2007 NBCC award in criticism on Thursday, March 6, with these remarks: It has
March 10, 2008
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This just in from Alf Wagermo, reporting on behalf of the Norwegian Critics’ Association, that country’s NBCC equivalent. On Thursday 6th of March the author Carl Frode Tiller was awarded
March 9, 2008
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The Balakian Award for Excellence in Reviewing is named in honor of Nona Balakian,a founding member of the National Book Critics Circle and its first secretary. She worked on the